Margie:Yes, the pollen does stick to the cotton fibers on the
q-tipespecially if you twirl it around on the stamen a bit. Hard to see
thelight colored pollen, but its there. I get a lot of pods with
thismethod; more, I think, than using the tweezer method. Also helpful
ifyou want to insure that there is no contamination from your
previouscross. Just use new q-tip each time you take different pollen.
Laetitia

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"Margie Valenzuela" <IrisLady@...>wrote:>> I've
heard of that method Laetitia, but have wondered if the pollenwould tend
to stick to the Q-tip swab. Does it?> > ~ Margie V.> Oro
Valley, AZ. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From:
skyland 1 > To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:19 PM> Subject:
[iris-photos] Re: HYB-how do we apply pollen?> > > I
found this easy way to pollinate which works great. Especiallygood for
> clumsy or unsteady hands.> I just take a q-tip (a fresh one of
course), swab the stamen (youdon't have > to detach it) and then
take the q-tip to the desired pod parentand swab the > stigma. The
results are quite good.> Laetitia> >
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